Damage around here was odd. I ventured out to find hot coffee for my wife and while our neighborhood is virtually untouched aside from lots of wet leaves covering everything, around the corner a big section of privacy fence was blown down and out into the road. There was other damage in that immediate area with big signs torn down, but only one big limb in the roadway. It looks like what you normally see with a micro-burst type of event because of the small footprint of damage. Did we have that kind of behavior with this system?

I grew up in Christiana near Midland. Still trying to contact old neighbors. Our road was right under the circulation but it's unclear if it touched down on that road.

An interesting observation I made last night..

My girlfriend's iPhone sounded the TOR Warning when Rutherford County was issued. My S7 didn't sound until the polygon was redrawn to include my phone's precise location, which was 5ft away from her iPhone.

Aaaaand the power is back on! This was about a 5 hour outage for us, longer than what we normally experience as a result of storms. I hope everybody else is recovering and cleaning up well this morning.

I also lost power for about an hour last night. I somehow managed to sleep through the whole thing. We got over an inch of rain in about 10 minutes. Honestly the flash flooding was worse than the wind here. I had higher winds with the warm front Sunday afternoon.

I assume surveys will determine where any tornado damage took place last night and any path(s).

I still take issue with the NWS stating in the warning text that a tornado was "confirmed" and then the wording clarifies that it was "confirmed by radar." Shortly after that, it was conjectured that the "debris signature" might have just been autumn leaves blowing around...

I did see maybe what they were seeing on the CC scan last night, but it didn't look like the tight TDS "dot" I've seen in the past. It seemed more diffused than that. So, probably, a lot of it was falling leaves pulled up into the circulation (there was certainly that)... though not necessarily a tornado making it to the ground, except for perhaps some brief touchdowns, which should still be assessed. Perhaps, it might yet be determined that a weak tornado did have a long track last night and the TDS was accurate all that time.

But, to me, "confirmed" is a strong word. That means you can say it's been... well... "confirmed." If it turns out that this was based on what turned out to be a debatable radar signature, then that weakens the force of that word.

When breaking news occurs, it's typically described initially as "unconfirmed reports." When an agency "confirms" it, that should give credibility that it really happened.

Ok- I'll get off my soap box. Hope for the best for anyone dealing with storm damage.

I talked to my son last night who lives in Nashville just as the storms were about to move in. He said the NWS was concerned about areas north of 40. I told him they know what they are doing but I would watch the broken up cells forming to the SW and moving south of 40.

Our power went out for a few minutes last night due to the winds. No thunder or lightning to speak of. Looks like 1 possible tornado in TN and 5 total. Glad it ended up not being bad, wish I didn't stay up so late monitoring things though.

OHX needs to do something about the sirens. They are all linked and sound at the same time. We’re starting to tune them out and sleep through them since they don’t sound with any relevancy to our safety.

OHX needs to do something about the sirens. They are all linked and sound at the same time. We’re starting to tune them out and sleep through them since they don’t sound with any relevancy to our safety.

Not OHX’s responsibility. That is up to each county/council elected officials.

Not OHX’s responsibility. That is up to each county/council elected officials.

Exactly. Each county has a disaster official that controls how sirens react.bit can be done too. Shelby Co- the largest county by land size in the state- does an amazing job to sound the alarm only in the polygon warned area.

To add to the siren debate, most of the sirens were installed during the period of OLD warning standards, i.e. whole county warnings. To reconfigure the system would take time and money, both of which most municipalities don't have. I had several people complain about sirens wailing when they weren't anywhere close to a warning. The system(s) need to be overhauled, for sure.

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